On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I've discovered that wget doesn't do connection timeouts. That is if the
> host it is trying to connect to cannot be reached for some reason then
> wget simply hangs.
>
> I expected wget to return after T seconds after specifying the timeout
> option on the command line but it didn't.
>
> No control of connect timeouts is a serious weakness in a tool designed
> to be used for batched downloads... I've had to swap wget for curl for
> the particular task I'm working on (which is a pity because in all other
> respects I like wget and want to support GNU projects).
Well.
As author of those parts of the curl code, I'm willing to donate code to wget
that would bring this functionality. Should anyone want it.
("donate" in this context would just be to hand over the copyright, as curl
is already completely free and open software)
--
Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
